Re: Was los im Süden, wird dort wieder alles mit Soldaten zu

"Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has promised a reduction in the quantity of illegal drugs being traf.....d in Thailand within six months. Authorities will start cracking down on illegal drugs in Bangkok and the southern region, the prime minister said after delivering a briefing on national security and narcotics suppression to high-ranking officials on Wednesday morning.

He said the government would implement a "five fences" strategy to prevent the spread of drugs - border, community, social, school and family fences. The government would also try to bring more addicts into drug rehabilitation programs. "If all sides work together, I am confident that the amount of drugs being traf.....d will be reduced. The agencies involved will have six months to show concrete results," Mr Abhisit said."

Re: Was los im Süden, wird dort wieder alles mit Soldaten zu

"The problem for the Democrat-led government is that, usually when they are in power they are good at speaking but not so great in terms of action. When he speaks, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva seems to understand that justice is the root cause of violence in the Deep South. But when he takes action, it seems he knows nothing."

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The government has done nothing significant to deal with the problem of justice and injustice in the predominantly Muslim region.

What the Prime Minister and his government have done since taking power in December is merely follow the footsteps of the military and bureaucrats in their old ways to handle the situation.

Prime Minister Abhisit said his government would use less of a military strategy and put more emphasis on justice. He also promised to revamp implementation of emergency and security laws.

However, the government agreed to a request by the Internal Security Operation Command (Isoc), last week for an additional 4,000 troops, to fill in positions on the ground. They will be mostly rangers, who have never had a good reputation in the Deep South.

The Isoc is in the process of structural adjustment to make the Cold War era organisation adapt to new security situations since the military-installed government under Surayud Chulanont issued a new security law in 2007 to help the agency be re-borne.

The Isoc obtained some Bt7 billion for its budget this year to contain the violence. The government already has 60,000 troops in the region. The additional armed forces are to help meet bureaucratic demands, but won´t tackle the root causes of the violence.

It´s possible that existing government troops already outnumber insurgents in the area but are simply unable to contain the violence. The civil strife erupted in early 2004 and more than 3,200 people have been killed since then, but the authorities have never made clear who exactly is orchestrating the trouble.

The military randomly rounds up thousands of suspects into custody. These moves, however, have failed to stop the violence and has only created injustice and some inhuman treatment of local people.

Prime Minister Abhisit got an incorrect impression from his one trip to the Deep South that the situation had improved. But nearly 100 people have died since he took power in mid-December. Media reports from this period show 34 bombings, seven bomb attempts and seven instances of people being beheaded. Many cases have not been reported by the media in Bangkok and cases of violence and casualties have not declined, which suggests the situation is as bad as it was five years ago. Rather than taking the opportunity to revise the justice system in the Deep South, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved a Justice Ministry´s strategic plan for southern border provinces for 2009-2012, which does not tackle the real problems.

The 28-page plan does not mention how to deal with unfair and unjust detention used by the military over the past five years to round up the ´suspected´ insurgents.

The tactic of detaining suspected insurgents was widely used since Surayud´s government in 2007. But in many cases, detainees died at the military´s hands and there has been evidence of detainees being tortured.

The authorities failed to build cases against most of the 1,500 detainees. This has made the military look silly because as many as 70 per cent of the cases had to be dropped.

A large number of dropped cases suggests not only a failure in the justice system but also unjust treatment of suspects. It is also a major human rights concern.

If Cabinet members read carefully they would see the so-called strategic plan contains a lot of overlapping and confusing structures in the justice system in the Deep South.

The Southern Border Province Administration Centre - SBPAC - has its own structure for justice while the Justice Ministry has another system in parallel with no connection and function of collaboration.

If Prime Minister Abhisit really wants to solve the problem there is no better place for him to begin with a revamp of justice in the far South."

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PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Suspected Muslim insurgents killed ten civilians in a flurry of attacks in the insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, the army said Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of a bloody assault by security forces against militants at a mosque.

In the deadliest incident, at least six gunmen in a pickup truck stormed into a house in Yala province late Monday, opening fire on a Muslim family of five, army spokesman Col. Parinya Chaidilok said. Four people were killed.

Parinya says two Muslim rubber plantation workers were later found dead in the compound of a nearby mosque. Thai security officials blamed Islamic insurgents bent on stirring up communal tension between Buddhists and Muslims.

The incidents came ahead of the fifth anniversary of the April 28, 2004, assault on the Krue Se mosque by Thai security forces, in which 32 insurgents were killed.
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"When Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva came to power three months ago on Dec 15, he announced that resolving the insurgency, now in its sixth year, was a top priority for his government.

He pledged to overhaul the administrative structure and streamline the chain of command in the south. Unconcerned about the possibility of a coup, having the full backing of the military and monarchy, he pledged greater civilian oversight.

Abhisit spoke of the Democrat Party´s deep ties in the south, its traditional strong-hold. He reiterated the failed pledges of former prime minister Surayud Chulanont´s regime to engage in reconciliation.

This does not bode well for the south and suggests that little progress will be made under the leadership of the Democrats: they still fail to see the insurgency for what it is and fail to acknowledge the goal to establish an independent Islamic state.

In five years, those responsible for the violence have not entered into talks with the government. For them, there is nothing to reconcile."

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Thai Democrats can´t see insurgency for what it is